Sentence examples for effective prose from inspiring English sources

Cavell knows how to write spare, effective prose.

That book showed that Gaiman had a rich imagination, a clear and effective prose style, and an ability to tackle large themes.

But in his prime, he evolved a clear and effective prose style that achieved a quality possessed only by master story-tellers, making the reader greedy for more.

His clipped, effective prose did not rise to those heights, nor did his ideas about art have the generous scope and grandeur of Ruskin's cultural vision.

And no memorial, in Mabey's direct and effective prose, to the processes of weather, the complex entanglements of predatory humans and indifferent nature.

Though the counterfactuals in Roberts's conclusion provoke thought, the real interest of his book resides in its robustly conventional virtues — scholarly dedication to the sources, humane identification with the soldiers and remarkably effective prose.

Good prose ignores protocols.

As a writing teacher whose method is to have students engage in personally and socially meaningful topics, and to write about these topics in full, drafted and revised essays, I am as concerned as anyone about students' difficulties with writing effective, clear prose.

Nor did they have crucial skills such as budgeting, project management, running meetings, and writing effective nontechnical prose.

Wulfstan was one of the most distinguished and effective Old English prose writers.

With some effective if overwrought prose, he interprets the speech as Lincoln's defense of liberal democracy and self-government — the cause somehow worth all the sacrifice.